Ayodhya Assembly constituency
| Ayodhya | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 275 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Ayodhya |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Faizabad |
| Total electors | 3,82,056 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Ayodhya Assembly constituency is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Ayodhya in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1] It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 275 amongst 403 constituencies.
Bharatiya Janata Party member Ved Prakash Gupta is the incumbent MLA, who won in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Tej Narayan Pandey by a margin of 19,990 votes.[2]
Members of Legislative Assembly
[edit]| Year | Member[3] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | B. Kishore | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| 1969 | Vishwanath Kapoor | Indian National Congress | |
| 1974 | Bed Prakash Agarwal | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| 1977 | Jai Shanker Pandey | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Nirmal Kumar | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1985 | Surendra Pratap Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1989 | Jai Shanker Pandey | Janata Dal | |
| 1991 | Lallu Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1993 | |||
| 1996 | |||
| 2002 | |||
| 2007 | |||
| 2012 | Tej Narayan Pandey | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017 | Ved Prakash Gupta | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | |||
Election results
[edit]2022
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Ved Prakash Gupta | 113,414 | 49.04 |  0.16 | |
| SP | Tej Narayan Pandey | 93,424 | 40.4 |  14.39 | |
| BSP | Ravi Prakash | 17,706 | 7.66 | 10.53 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,240 | 0.54 | 0.18 | |
| Majority | 19,990 | 8.64 | 14.55 | ||
| Turnout | 231,258 | 60.53 | 1.43 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Ved Prakash Gupta | 107,014 | 49.2 | ||
| SP | Tej Narayan Pandey | 56,574 | 26.01 | ||
| BSP | Mo Bazmi Siddeke | 39,554 | 18.19 | ||
| BMP | Banshi Lal Yadav | 5,661 | 2.6 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,544 | 0.72 | ||
| Majority | 50,440 | 23.19 | |||
| Turnout | 217,488 | 61.96 | |||
| BJP gain from SP | Swing | ||||
2002
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Lalloo Singh | 51,289 | 38.72 | ||
| BSP | Abhay Singh | 33,429 | 25.24 | ||
| SP | Ved Prakash Gupta | 31,936 | 24.11 | ||
| INC | Ashok Singh | 8,368 | 6.32 | ||
| Majority | 17,860 | 13.48 | −2.72 | ||
| Turnout | 132,448 | 47.18 | −1.46 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
1996
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Lalloo Singh | 59,658 | 45.61 | ||
| SP | Jai Shankar Pandey | 38,463 | 29.41 | ||
| BSP | Om Prakash Verma | 28,529 | 21.81 | ||
| Majority | 21,195 | 16.20 | +8.75 | ||
| Turnout | 130,791 | 48.64 | −9.00 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
1993
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Lallu Singh | 58,587 | 47.24 | ||
| SP | Jai Shankar Pandey | 49,349 | 39.79 | ||
| INC | Surendra Pratap Singh | 8,389 | 6.76 | ||
| CPI | Raj Bahadur Yadav | 2,059 | 1.66 | ||
| Majority | 9,238 | 7.45 | |||
| Turnout | 124,013 | 57.64 | |||
References
[edit]- ↑ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- 1 2 "Assembly result 2022". Elections.in. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ↑ "Ayodhya Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
- ↑ "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
External links
[edit]- "Election results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.